Endless Quotes - Page 20

• Don't drag candidates through weeks of endless interviews. Don't flake out on interviews. At DeveloperAuction, we often have offer letters prepared in advance, so we can hand them to great candidates as they are leaving the office.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Hands, Office, Leaving

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• Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?

  David Hume

  Determination, Practice, Light

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4014, Delphi Classics

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• Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.

  Horace Bushnell

  Men, Power, Wind

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• Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.

  Jane Jacobs

  Life, Art, Order

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• Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
  Locked in endless dreams,
  The extremes of all extremes,
  Ope no more, for now Love dies.

  John Ford

  Dream, Grief, Eye

  John Ford (1995). “The lover's melancholy: The broken heart ; 'Tis pity she's a whore ; Perkin Warbeck”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Distance, Science, Sound

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• It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Dream, Suffering, Bread

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.143, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.

  Hans Bellmer

  Real, Body, Anagrams

  Hans Bellmer, Stephen S. Prokopoff, Krannert Art Museum (1991). “Hans Bellmer, photographs: 23 February to 31 March 1991”

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• How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Book, Knowledge, Cutting

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• From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.

  Adele Faber

  Clever, Sibling, Struggle

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• Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.

  Morgan Freeman

  Trying, Energy, Use

  "Morgan Freeman has taste for clean energy". Interview with Adam Spangler, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

  Neil Peart

  Integrity, Compromise, Illusion

  "Song: The Spirit Of Radio (Permanent Waves)". December 1979.

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• There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them?

  Sun Tzu

  Color, Circles, Two

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.98, Shambhala Publications

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• Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Origin Of Life, Theory Of Evolution

  On the Origin of Species ch. 14 (1859)

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• But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Past, True Or False

  Essays Circles (p. 297)

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• Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving - even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Running, Air, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Men, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1183, Delphi Classics

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• Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.

  Mason Cooley

  Drama, Bottles, Alcoholism

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• Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Regret, Celebrate

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• Politics creates an almost endless time horizon into the future. ... As governor I had the incredible luxury of being able to dream on a grand scale. And this sense of infinite possibility gives politics its romance.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Dream, Luxury, Endless Time

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• I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Brother, Hands, Assassins

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 202, 1991.

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• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  Ida Tarbell

  Strong, Real, Mistake

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• There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Believe, Heaven, Sorrow

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Determination, Writing

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• Joy is the mainspring in the whole
  Of endless Nature's calm rotation.
  Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
  In the great Time-piece of Creation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Moving, Joy, Wheels

  Friedrich Schiller (1844). “Sammlung”, p.198

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